Welfare check requested for unresponsive elderly man, Beckley WV
Missing PersonPolice and EMS responded to a welfare check request at Wildwood House Apartments near Autumn Ln, Beckley. A woman was concerned about her 63-year-old father, a cancer patient, who had not answered calls for several days. His car was parked, and his phone was ringing inside his apartment, but no one answered the door. A key holder on site was contacted to assist law enforcement entry.
Audio|Source: Raleigh County Public Safety
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Transcript:
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I have a call at near Autumn Ln and Beckley at the Wildwood House Apartments in reference to a check of welfare at Apartment 6, India.
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The complainant is requesting a welfare check on her father.
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It's not answered her call for the last few days and he's a cancer patient.
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She last spoke to him on Saturday.
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He's 63 years old.
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She went to his residence to try to check on him, but nobody entered the door. She does not have a spare key.
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Advice, his vehicle is in the parking lot, and when she calls his cell phone, she can hear it ringing inside his apartment. She's requesting law enforcement.
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We have also checked local hospitals. He's not a patient at either facility.
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Copy. Do we have a manager's phone number or anything that might have a key?
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We do have a key holder that lives there on site that I could have meet you.
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Copy.
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Go ahead.
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We'll be clear from that stop.
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Okay.
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You can clear that noise complaint.
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Copy, sir.
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340 Beckley you can clear us from a yard to loop unable locate
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custom control 229 229
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you get the number for the bus garage clear it you get number for the uptown area
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Control 612.
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612.
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612 will be busy company traffic.
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Coffee.
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Contact the MS. 7 will stand by in the area.
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...in it right there across the lobby lobby. We'll have them to the stage there in the parking lot.
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I'm leaving with the camera in case you'll need you if you can prop that front door open so I'll be able to get in.
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Two.
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Morley Control, Pager 601. Pageur 601, you can respond to Wildwood House Apartments, near Autumn Ln Beckley, stage in the parking lot.
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Law enforcement is responding to a check to welfare,
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request an EMS, repeating, respond to near Autumn Ln, Wildwood House Apartments,
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and stage in the parking lot. Law enforcement is requested the EMS for a welfare check at 2108.
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Control, 601.
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601. 601.
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We copy with your listening.
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Copy at 2108.
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2108. 242 control.
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Okay.
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(name withheld) that they're on site is going to meet you with a key there in the lobby.
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242. We also have a Jankerary unit staging there in the parking lot.
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2.19, just checking on you.
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Near Autumn Ln, Beckley, WV 25801
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